GOP watch: 'Premature'

"Even as House Republicans prepare to unveil their majority-making agenda, GOP Members are worried about appearing overly confident and have been trying to tone down talk that they will win," Roll Call writes. Here's John Boehner, who said earlier this cycle that 100 seats were in play. "I think it’s all a bit premature," Minority Leader John Boehner said last week when asked about how he would lead the chamber as Speaker. "The Ohio Republican has been actively campaigning for the Speakership for months: He’s talked publicly about wresting the gavel from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and even set up a political action committee to raise money off the prospect. But in recent days, the Minority Leader has softened his rhetoric, and his rank-and-file colleagues appear to be following his lead."

Despite DeMint and Republican leaders' nice talk last week, Roll Call writes that rifts persist: "Although the National Republican Senatorial Committee has begun spending millions of dollars on Senate candidates whom DeMint backed in the primary, South Carolina’s junior Senator remains dissatisfied with NRSC strategy in a handful of races. DeMint is taking what he deems corrective action by spending money in such races, drawing funds from his Senate Conservatives Fund political action committee and his own personal re-election account."

The New York Times front-pages the GOP strategy to repeal the health-care law.

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first, it is all about the money! get on tv and say the most outrageous, egregious, disingenuous, race baiting comment you can, and you get money. go on tv and call obama every name in the book, and you get money. run for the senate time and time again, and you get money to live on. from karl rove to jim demint to michelle bachman, vivian foxx, sarah palin, sharon ingle and now christine o'donnell; it's all about the money they can bring in either to live on or to get votes. money = votes and voters can be manipulated by political ads, viral emails, mailers and robo-calls.

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#1 - Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:51 AM EDT

MkeMike

How will voters be able to determine if Christine O'Donnell has truly given up witchcraft?

Here's how to tell if your Congressional candidate is a witch:

Leave it to the Dominican priests --- the "Dogs of Christ"--- to come up with the "Malleus Malefactorum." This handy guide to detecting real witches proffered three main tests.

First, witches can't cry. The book provided a vivid description of the death of Jesus and its impact on his Mother Mary. Maybe we can get Christine to cry, but probably not until election night. Too late...

Second, the floating test. This test required the suspect to be dropped into a pool of water. If she sank, though in danger of drowning, she passed the test. If she floated ... burned at the stake.

Well, test number three, the Middle Age version of today's body-cavity search might be appealing to Conservative Republicans after all. Since a witch is possessed by the devil, old Satan must have slipped in somewhere. Experts meticulously shaved every hair off the defendant's body, then carefully combed over her bare figure, pricking it with needles and prying at it with calipers to identify especially-sensitive spots.

Since many post-menopausal women suffer from "dry eye" and many women endure the effects of osteoporosis, which leaves their bones much lightened making them float, tests one and two were frequently fatal to witches. Test three sounds like something Dick Cheney would enjoy doing so I propose we let him have at it.

3 votes

#2 - Tue Sep 21, 2010 10:15 AM EDT

dirt-303814

How do you tell if Coons, O'Donnell's opponent, is a Marxist? Just ask him!

#2.1 - Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:38 PM EDT

Hamletrules

Ah, yes-- the old "Witches Hammer"...Double Double Toil and Trouble! Normally on Halloween, I and other Friends of Hamlet dress up as Witches for Samhain (Halloween), but this year, I think we will dress up as Christine O'Donnell because she's the scariest thing we can think of...

BTW, the "blood" on that altar, was the remains of a Happy Meal. "Ketch-up" fundies.

Peace to all Wiccans, Freethinkers, Neo-Pagans and other "questionable folks" :)

#3 - Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:02 PM EDT